The problem with most mainstream comedies these days–the reason why most of them seem anything but funny–is because they simply don’t make the effort to tell adequate jokes. They depend mostly on sight gags, whichRead Full Review

Poor little Tony Baekland. Being raised by two as vain and irresponsible as Brooks and Barbara Baekland, there seemed to be little choice for what Tony could do with his life. It was their selfishnessRead Full Review

I’m a huge basketball fan. And I spent much of late April to early June glued to the television watching the NBA playoffs (not even a movie could pull me away). Unfortunately, marketers found basketballRead Full Review

Who doesn’t like Will Smith lately? The answer seems to be nobody, as he headlines Hancock, a film which is sure to be his seventh or eighth blockbuster in a row. He is easily the mostRead Full Review

This is the kind of film that makes the Hollywood summer season great. A little under two hours of sharp wit, beautiful stars, and highly stylized mayhem, all coming together to make the most exciting,Read Full Review

Prof. Walter Vale is old. Not in the actual sense, though. He lives, drives, and works in a perfectly functional way, and gravity hasn’t yet begun it’s unavoidable battle with his skin, but figuratively speaking,Read Full Review

Ever since Toy Story, Pixar studios has produced some of the best films of the last decade. Finding Nemo and Ratatouille were unbelievably sweet films which charmed audiences, and won Oscars, while The Incredibles was a masterpiece about family and responsibility. TheirRead Full Review

The new Hollywood blockbuster Iron Man is many things. For one, it is the official beginning of the summer movie season, where millions of theaters will be filled with seat-clinching action pictures that would make Michael BayRead Full Review

For the last couple years, it seems that the aura of Tina Fey has continued to grow more and more. She became somewhat of a cult hit as the host of Weekend Update on “Saturday Night Live”.Read Full Review

Despite Forgetting Sarah Marshall being a startling impressive debut from director Nic Stoller, and featuring to television stars in Kristen Bell and Mila Kunis, the undeniable star of this film is Jason Segal. The film’s writer, andRead Full Review

The story goes: renowned commercial director Noam Murro was approached to make his feature film debut with The Ring Two. Murro, after much consideration, turned it down, and decided to introduce himself to the film worldRead Full Review

People have been waiting for a film to fully digest the War on Terror going on in Iraq. Films like In The Valley of Elah tried, but their heavy-handed messages sent more than a few people away.Read Full Review

The latest Judd Apatow comedy, Drillbit Taylor, deals with three bullied teenagers that hire a homeless, ex-military man to be their bodyguard. When the three boys first think over the idea, one of the boys, RyanRead Full Review

Tracey is a trouble-maker. She hypnotized her little brother, Sonny, into thinking he was a dog. Tracey is an outcast. She is alienated by all her peers, and ridiculed relentlessly by boys and girls alikeRead Full Review

It’s amazing how many Hollywood pictures have gone down the drain when they tried to tackle subject matter dealing with the War in Iraq. The opposite could be said, though, for documentary filmmaking. Ever sinceRead Full Review

Call it the Valentine’s Day attitude inside of me, but I essentially liked Definitely, Maybe as much as you can like a two-star film. It was charming, the emotions swayed me, and it wasn’t the kind ofRead Full Review

Through the process of looking up Gregory Holbit’s resume on IMDb, I felt pretty ignorant in finding that he is the same man who directed Primal Fear and Frequency. I enjoyed both films, thought they were clever, andRead Full Review

Within the story of The Kite Runner you have something that is incredibly touching, painfully sad, profoundly heroic, and simply wonderful. Based on the best-selling novel by Khaled Hosseini, the film translates comfortably to the screen withinRead Full Review

No filmmaker in the last ten years has been more enigmatic than Paul Thomas Anderson. His films range from the extremely quirky romantic comedy Punch-Drunk Love, the meditation on the decadence of the 70’s porn industry, BoogieRead Full Review

Mike Nichol’s new film tells a very interesting, but very true story. For close to fifty years, America laid in fear of the Communist empire in the Soviet Union, and the constant stand-off of nuclearRead Full Review

“Besides my left eye, there are only two things that aren’t paralyzed: my imagination and my memory.”- Jean-Dominique Bauby And so goes one of the more memorable lines from Julian Schnabel’s revolutionary new film The DivingRead Full Review

Richard Yates’ novel Revolutionary Road is a fondly remembered novel about marriage in the 1950’s, and how quickly paradise can become purgatory. It’s a biting story, critical of the average American’s striving need to conform to societalRead Full Review

There are only two ways that the events in Atonement are presented. They are presented as they happen, but they are also presented through the conspicuous eyes and imagination of Briony Tallis. The two points of viewRead Full Review

When watching 1998’s Elizabeth, there is always the sneaking suspiscion that what you are watching is not incredibly close to history. You tend not to notice or care, because you are so enthralled by what wasRead Full Review